prosopopoeia
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Over its many seasons of courtship Harrison has come to be the prosopopoeia of all the nation's unease over changing demographics.
From Salon
Where others would say “I don’t want to talk in my husband’s place”, she said something I’ve never heard anyone else say: “I don’t like prosopopoeia.”
From The Guardian
The want of scenery is sometimes supplied by a very unclassical figure, which, just the reverse of the prosopopoeia or personification of grammarians, considers persons to represent things.
From Project Gutenberg
Phædrus evidently confounds them with tales; and Gay, both with tales and allegorical prosopopoeias.
From Project Gutenberg
Yet in nearly every literature death has been personified, while no kindred prosopopoeia of life is anywhere to be found.
From Project Gutenberg
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